Page 92 of Twin Warriors

Amy ushered the women forwards when she saw the space was empty. What they entered looked like some kind of command space, with one wall covered in screens showing video feeds from outside. Two large tables stood in the center, with holograms of the city and the Iron compound projected above them. Amy paled when she saw the destruction to the compound. The medical unit she had been working in was a smoking pile of rubble.

“Ice,” She whispered, her heart breaking at the thought of the female having been killed. Could it be that the symbiotes had failed to protect Ice?

This is what the cyborg must have meant when he said that Iron would die now that his mate was gone.

“No,” She breathed, blinking back tears.

“Guys,” Rachel called, making Amy turn to see her friend staring at the large wall of screens.

Amy ran over, her eyes darting from one feed to the next.

“No!” Mika cried, backing away from the screens as her body began to shake.

“What is it?” Sam asked, going over to her.

Mika raised a trembling finger and pointed to one of the screens in the lower section of the wall. Amy turned to see what she was pointing to and almost fell to her knees with relief.

On the screen, they watched as dozens of Iron warriors scaled the rocks of the mountain, heading towards the fortress.

“More cyborgs,” Mika cried, shaking her head as she tried to get free of Sam’s arms.

Amy spun to them, “It’s okay. Those are the good guys. They are from the Iron compound. They came to get us all out.”

Mika still cried, her face a mask of pure terror as her wide eyes stayed glued to the screen.

“What happened to her?” Amy barked, pinning Rachel with a furious glare.

Rachel shook her head, tears welling in the strong woman's eyes.

“The cyborg hurt her, Amy. He hurt her really bad.”

Amy closed her eyes for a moment, trying to get her grief and anger under control.

More shouting came from outside the room, making them all snap back into action. Rachel ran over to the door to look out, while Sam dragged Mika away from the screens and towards the back of the room where they could hide her.

Amy ran over to Rachel, “What’s going on?”

Rachel stared out of the doorway; her eyes wide. When Amy looked out, her mouth fell open. The door led out to a small courtyard surrounded by the taller structure of the rest of the fortress. But what caught her attention, was the Korok soldiers being lifted into the air by nothing at all. They flew up, only to be torn apart, then the pieces of their mangled bodies fell back to the ground with a disgusting splat.

Stone and rubble rained down from the four tall towers rising into the sky as the massive weapons that had been mounted there were destroyed and thrown to the ground.

A large black shape moved above them, sending a black shadow over the sun lit stone in front of them.

Amy looked up, but the shape was gone.

“We need to get out of here,” Rachel said, looking at where the rubble slammed into the rock in front of them, crushing the small buildings on the other side of the courtyard.

Amy turned back inside and called for Sam and Mika to join them.

Once her sister and her friend were close, Amy eased out of the doorway, and they all ran for the stairs leading further up. It was the only way out, and if she could get high enough, then Kisma and Maku would be able to get to her.

They raced up the wide stairs, taking two at a time, before they entered a much larger courtyard higher up.

Dozens of Korok soldiers stood firing up at the tower above them, not noticing the four women as they moved along the wall towards the next set of stairs. Once they were out of sight of the Korok, Amy gripped her wrists and called out to Kisma and Maku.

A wave of intense relief filled her body when they answered her with images of Cane and Cole fighting to get to her.

They were close. She could feel the pull of her symbiotes guiding her to them. They were higher up, closer to the top of the fortress.